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Que faisais-tu quand ... ? The imperfect tense with regular verbs ('be' + ing)

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I can describe what I and others were doing and what was happening using the imperfect tense.

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The imperfect tense is used to describe what was happening or what you were doing when something else happened. For imperfect of regular verbs remove -ons from 'nous' present tense and add: -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient. [ai] sounds like 'vrai', [on] is a nasal sound like 'non', and [ez] sounds like 'écrire'.

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